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It's been quite a while since I last mentioned Flexicious, the incredibly powerful and flexible Flex datagrid. Well, the Flexicious team have been busy, and have released a new Spark-based datagrid and charting engine as Flexicious 3. In addition, they have released HTMLTreeGrid, a JavaScript port of their Flex DataGrid, built on top of jQuery, DOJO, and EXT-JS.

If you are in the Greater DC area, you may want to take part in two days of coding and collaboration with the jQuery community at the jQuery Developer Summit. Adobe is a sponsor and Adobe folks will be present (unfortunately I'll be on the other coast this week). You need to apply to attend, so if you're interested, do it quickly!

The default jQuery Mobile page transitions are slide for pages and pop for dialogs. And on Android these can be sluggish and appear to flash on and off annoyingly. Turning off transitions is easy, well, once you know the code you need. The following (which is not overly clear in the docs) was given to me by fellow Adobian, and jQuery Mobile contributor, Kin Blas.

Simple, right? Well, there is one catch. The mobileinit event has to be bound before jQuery Mobile is loaded. In other words it needs to be after your code that loads jQuery, but before the code that loads jQuery Mobile. You can put it right inline, or in its own .js file, which you can include.